Hi :) Wow, i find it amazing that you don't see more people using mobile or hand-held devices in your town! Also amazing that you can't buy any hand-held or mobile devices anywhere.
Such devices have already pretty much taken over here in the Uk. However i do agree that this bug is not really fixed. Quite the contrary! Now is the time to really start working at it! Now that mobile devices and hand-helds have become so common-place it should be easier to go into stores and demand peripherals (such as printers, wireless routers etc) that are Gnu&Linux friendly. Demands such as "I need a printer for work but need to know that i will be able to print from my Android. So, is this printer Gnu&Linux friendly?" or "I need a wireless router so that my Android can access my home/work network. Does this router have drivers for Gnu&Linux?" This demand needs to reach the OEMs. Stores need to know that they have got to start supporting Gnu&Linux = that there is demand for it and that the demand is growing. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Martyn Vallett <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, 7 June 2013, 8:48 >Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share > > >I firmly believe that this bug is no where near being fixed! > >Things that need to be fixed: > >1. Quite a few of the OEM's still don't support Linux, and whenever >drivers are asked for (I'm talking about items that aren't supported >correctly by the kernel, such as my particular GPU.) they try to get you >to use windows. I know this through experience! Now if bug 1 was truly >fixed then I should have had no problem at all getting what I needed, or >not to have needed to get the drivers in the first place. > >2. This has already been mentioned a lot but the retail stores dislike >selling anything other than windows pre-installed. > >3. I've already mentioned this before but, we really need some >advertising of some sort. I only know two people other than myself in my >town that use Linux. Advertising/Public awareness could change that. > >I agree with PJO about the closure statement, It definitely sounded a >bit odd. > > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu 4 dz, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share Status in Club Distro: Confirmed Status in Computer Science Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: New Status in dylan.NET.Reflection: Invalid Status in dylan.NET: Invalid Status in EasyPeasy Overview: Invalid Status in Ichthux - Linux for Christians: Invalid Status in JAK LINUX: Invalid Status in LibreOffice: In Progress Status in The Linux Kernel: New Status in The Linux Mint Distribution: In Progress Status in The Linux OS Project: In Progress Status in Neobot: New Status in Novabot: New Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: In Progress Status in Tabuntu: Invalid Status in A simple player to online TV streaming: Invalid Status in Tv-Player: Invalid Status in Ubuntu Malaysia LoCo Team Meta Project: In Progress Status in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in Arch Linux: Confirmed Status in Baltix GNU/Linux: Invalid Status in “linux” package in Debian: In Progress Status in Fluxbuntu: The Lightweight, Productive, Agile OS: Confirmed Status in openSUSE: In Progress Status in Tilix Linux: New Bug description: See Mark's closure comment here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834 ------ Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix. As the philosophy of the Ubuntu Project states, "Our work is driven by a belief that software should be free and accessible to all." "Ubuntu software is free. Always was, always will be. Free software gives everyone the freedom to use it however they want and share with whoever they like. This freedom has huge benefits. At one end of the spectrum it enables the Ubuntu community to grow and share its collective experience and expertise to continually improve all things Ubuntu. At the other, we are able to give access to essential software for those who couldn’t otherwise afford it – an advantage that’s keenly felt by individuals and organisations all over the world." * http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/our-philosophy Non-free software leaves users at the mercy of the software owner and concentrates control over the technology which powers our society into the hands of a few. Additionally, proprietary software stifles innovation, maintains artificial scarcities, and enables malicious anti-features such as DRM, surveillance, and other monopolistic practices. This bug is widely evident in the PC industry. Steps to repeat: 1. Visit a local PC store. 2. Attempt to buy a machine without any proprietary software. What happens: Almost always, a majority of PCs for sale have Microsoft Windows pre- installed. In the rare cases that they come with a GNU/Linux operating system or no operating system at all, the drivers and BIOS may be proprietary. What should happen: A majority of the PCs for sale should include only free software. * http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html * http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines * http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/clubdistro/+bug/1/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~algeriatul More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
